Odell beckham is Gay.. What type nigga be singing and have another nigga in the tub come out the water like that .. Nah that ain't right

Are we still questioning whether Odell is gay or not or is this just something we've come to accept?pic.twitter.com/xutlBfvGt8

Odell Beckham just needs to go ahead and make it official so he can tap into that gay market and start gettin that gay paper

I'm convinced that Odell is gay

Stop making excuses for Odell man.... He Gay. Period.https://twitter.com/kaligoodz/status/769266454915002369 ...

On the Instagram comments under the video, one user wrote, "That made my stomach turn," while another wrote, "Odell probably should've told [dude] to stay out the video cause this look extra gay."

But a bevy of Twitter users responded to those concerned with Beckham's sexuality with one question: Why do you care?

As many people pointed out, the culprit behind the gay rumors is probably our old friend fragile masculinity.

I love how Odell Beckham makes insecure, hypermasculine men so bothered.

Dudes calling Odell Beckham Jr. gay are the same ones who would be terrified to leave him with their girls alone for a half hour

Speculation around Odell Beckham Jr's sexuality is further proof that straight men LOVE to obsess over other men's sexuality.

When it's 2016, and there are insecure, pathetic straight dudebros who are still concerned that Odell Beckham Jr might be gay.

I don't care if Odell Beckham is gay, straight or bi, that's his business. As long as he keeps making dope plays and being great we're good

Half of you guys throwing gay shade to Odell Beckham for his hot tub video are upset you weren't that close to his nuts. #EnvyGreatness #nyg

I don't care if Odell Beckham Jr is gay or straight. Neither should you. Good grief..let that man live.

In a December 2015 piece in Slate, Rafi D'Angelo wrote that the persistent gay rumors surrounding Beckham show how black male celebrities are often given less room to act freely than white celebrities.

"White men are allowed a greater range of expression before they are automatically considered gay,"D'Angelo wrote. "The boys in Marvel movies are always flirting and nobody cares. Matt McGorry can say his male co-star has a pretty mouth and nobody cares. Channing Tatum 'vogued' and nobody cares."

Ironically, the original video doesn't portray gayness so much as it parodies it. On one level, Beckham winks at gay rumors by sharing a hot tub with a colleague — something innocent enough when you're a professional athlete. But, on another level, Beckham "reveals" the extra person in the hot tub in the final seconds of the video as a joke — ha! It's a guy! That Beckham would be considered gay when he's actually making gayness the joke reveals just how fragile our masculinity is.

For all the questions around his sexuality, Beckham doesn't seem to care.

Mathew Rodriguez is a Staff Writer at Mic. He is a queer Latino New Yorker who enjoys female rappers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Flannery O'Connor. He is a former editor at TheBody.com and he is working on a memoir about his father, HIV and heroin on New York City's Lower East Side. Email him at mathew@mic.com.